[systemd-devel] [RFC] merging the rest of CK into systemd

[Paul McDonough]

You thought at looking at lightDM instead? Its D.E agnostic and is currently
applying to be a Freedesktop.org project

Paul Michael McDonough
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Aurora Webmaster / Developer  http://getaurora.com


On 3 May 2011 15:12, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) said:
> > Heya,
> >
> > here's a little document Kay and I put together outlining our rough
> > plans for systemd for the next Fedora cycle:
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ev4f0gwBuvs6SH_N8fN5LO4LV3sbwtJsLq52F_wwpU/edit?hl=en&authkey=CObM_7UI
> >
> > It mostly focusses on cleaning up seat and login management for users,
> > i.e. the first big steps in bringing systemd to user sessions. On the
> > way want to fix multi-seat support properly and running services outside
> > of a session, and we will get rid of CK.
> >
> > The good news for embeded folks: all of this will be implemented in a
> > tiny new dbus service "systemd-logind", which can easily be removed for
> > minimal setups, when tracking unprivileged user logins is unnecessary.
> >
> > Anway, we post this here as RFC, and to give you folks an idea what
> > we'll do next.
>
> ...
> There will be no public CK database. However we will provide a tiny library
> (drop-in or .so) which allows NM, PK and D-Bus query whether a PID or user
> is currently on an active sesssion without involving D-Bus, as fast path
> for
> auth checks
> ...
>
> It would be nice if the ck-for-admins binaries still have an analog
> (ck-list-sessions, etc.).
>
> ...
> udev-acl will move into this dbus service
> ...
>
> I would hope that the interface for the udev rules themselves is not going
> to change, merely the mechanism that's used to apply the ACLs?
>
> ...
> CK's shutdown/reboot handling moves into a tiny bus service ...
> ...
>
> Would the shutdown/reboot/halt binaries remain separate from this servce?
>
> Bill
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